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Salesforce · 11 hours ago

Senior Backend Software Engineer

positionSan Francisco, CA
timeFull-time
remoteHybrid
senioritySenior Level
money$143K/yr - $217K/yr
date7+ years exp

Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. They are seeking a Senior Backend Software Engineer to build high-quality, production-ready code and develop new components for their cloud platform.

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Responsibilities

Build new and exciting components/frameworks in developing distributed filesystems in an ever-growing and evolving market technology to provide scale and efficiency
Develop high-quality, production-ready code that can be used by millions of users of our cloud platform
Build efficient components/algorithms on a microservice multi-tenant SaaS cloud distributed filesystem environment
Code review, mentoring junior engineers, and providing technical guidance to the team

Qualification

JavaPythonSQLAWS/Azure/GCPDistributed systemsEvent-driven architectureRelational databasesNon-relational databasesBig-Data/MLKafkaElastic SearchTerraformKubernetesDockerLeadership skills

Required

Bachelors (or) Masters degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field
Mastery of programming language(s) and platforms 7+ years of software development experience Deep knowledge of object-oriented programming and other scripting languages: Java, Python along with Strong SQL skills and experience with relational and non-relational databases e.g. (Postgress/Trino/)
Experience with developing SAAS products over public cloud infrastructure - AWS/Azure/GCP
Proven experience designing and developing distributed systems at scale
Proficiency in queues, locks, scheduling, event-driven architecture, and workload distribution, along with a deep understanding of relational database and non-relational databases
A deeper understanding of software development best practices and demonstrate leadership skills

Preferred

Experience with Big-Data/ML and S3 Hands-on experience with Streaming technologies like Kafka
Experience with Elastic Search
Experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker
Experience working in a high-paced and rapidly growing multinational organization

Benefits

Time off programs
Medical
Dental
Vision
Mental health support
Paid parental leave
Life and disability insurance
401(k)
Employee stock purchasing program

Company

Salesforce

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Salesforce is a cloud-based software company that provides customer relationship management software and applications.
dateFounded in 1999
location
San Francisco, California, USA
people-size10001+ employees
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https://www.salesforce.com

H1B Sponsorship

Salesforce has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (1883)
2024 (2296)
2023 (1850)
2022 (2849)
2021 (2124)
2020 (1960)

Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$65.38M
Key Investors
Starboard ValueEmergence CapitalHalsey Minor
2022-10-18Post Ipo Equity
2004-06-23IPO
2003-01-01Series Unknown· $1M

Leadership Team

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Arundhati Bhattacharya
CEO & Chairperson, Salesforce India and South Asia
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Marc Benioff
Chair & CEO
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